Seminars
M&I/VETMI 7120 Seminar Series -- Current Semester
All M&I/VETMI 7120 seminars are held in-person on Fridays from 12:15 PM - 1:30 PM in Lecture Hall 3 (T1-003) at the College of Veterinary Medicine (CVM) unless otherwise noted.
Fall 2026
Friday, September 11th, 2026
Developmental Transcriptional Programs Establish Layered Immunity of Unconventional T Cells at Barrier Tissues
Seminar Included in the VETMI 7120 Course Schedule.
Dr. Michela Frascoli
Assistant Professor
Department of Pathology
University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School
Hosted by: Dr. Brian Rudd
Department of Microbiology and Immunology
Friday, September 18th, 2026
How Diet and the Microbiome Combine to Induce Intestinal Inflammation
Seminar Included in the VETMI 7120 Course Schedule.
Dr. Timothy Hand
Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Immunology, Microbiology and Molecular Genetics
Director, Institute of Infection, Inflammation & Immunity in Children (i4Kids)
Director, University of Pittsburgh Gnotobiotic Core
UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh
University of Pittsburgh
Hosted by: Dr. Mandy McGeachy
Department of Microbiology and Immunology
Friday, September 25th, 2026
Measuring Membrane Diversity in Mycobacteria
Seminar Included in the VETMI 7120 Course Schedule.
Dr. Jessica Seeliger
Professor
Department of Pharmacological Sciences
Stony Brook University
Hosted by: Dr. Pamela Chang
Department of Microbiology and Immunology
Friday, October 2nd, 2026
Deciphering the Chemical Crosstalk of Host-Gut Microbiota Interactions
Seminar Included in the VETMI 7120 Course Schedule.
Dr. Pamela Chang
Associate Professor of Immunology
Department of Microbiology and Immunology
College of Veterinary Medicine
Cornell University
Hosted by: Dr. Deborah Fowell
Department of Microbiology and Immunology
Friday, October 16th, 2026
New Approaches Against A Re-Emerging Virus (Measles)
Seminar Included in the VETMI 7120 Course Schedule.
Dr. Erica Saphire
Professor, President & Chief Executive Officer
Center for Autoimmunity and Inflammation
Center for Cancer Immunotherapy
Center for Sex-based Differences in the Immune System
Center for Vaccine Innovation
La Jolla Institute for Immunology
Hosted by: Dr. Andrew Flyak
Department of Microbiology and Immunology
Friday, October 23rd, 2026
Emergence and Evolution of a Pandemic Canine Parvovirus -- The Control of Viral Host Range and Antibody Neutralization
Seminar Included in the VETMI 7120 Course Schedule.
Dr. Colin Parrish
John M. Olin Professor of Virology Emeritus
Department of Microbiology and Immunology
Baker Institute for Animal Health
College of Veterinary Medicine
Cornell University
Hosted by: Dr. Deborah Fowell
Department of Microbiology and Immunology
Friday, October 30th, 2026
At the Junction of Immunology and Reproduction: Revisiting the Ovary as a Fertile Ground
Seminar Included in the VETMI 7120 Course Schedule.
Dr. Yi Athena Ren
Assistant Professor of Reproductive Biology
Department of Animal Science
College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
Cornell University
Hosted by: Dr. Colleen Lau
Department of Microbiology and Immunology
Friday, November 6th, 2026
TBA
Seminar Included in the VETMI 7120 Course Schedule.
Dr. Sabra Klein
Professor
Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Hosted by: Dr. Sarah Caddy
Department of Microbiology and Immunology
Friday, November 20th, 2026
Forcing the Enemy to Reveal Itself: Studies on the Spike Proteins of Emerging Enveloped Viruses
Seminar Included in the VETMI 7120 Course Schedule.
Dr. Kartik Chandran
Professor of Microbiology and Immunology
Gertrude and David Feinson Chair in Medicine
Harold and Muriel Block Faculty Scholar in Virology
Member, Montefiore Einstein Comprehensive Cancer Center
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Hosted by: M&I Graduate Students: Solomiia Khomandiak & Serena Teh
Department of Microbiology and Immunology
Friday, December 4th, 2026
Defining and Guiding Antibody Maturation to the HIV-1 Silent Face
Seminar Included in the VETMI 7120 Course Schedule.
Dr. Christopher Barnes
Assistant Professor of Biology
Department of Biology
Stanford University School of Humanities and Sciences
Hosted by: Dr. Andrew Flyak
Department of Microbiology and Immunology
Other Seminars of Interest
Events sponsored by the Cornell Center for Immunology
Microbiology (CALS) Department Seminars
Virology Journal Club
BBS WIP - Wednesdays at 9am, contact Arla Hourigan (aj96) for more information
Microbiome Supergroup – 3rd Tuesday of the month, contact Professor Liz Johnson (elj54) for more information
M&I/VETMI 7120 Seminar Series -- Archives
Spring 2026
Friday, January 23, 2026
Lessons from Influenza Past to Inform Future Influenza Vaccines
Seminar Included in the VETMI 7120 Course Schedule.
Dr. Jenna Guthmiller
Assistant Professor
Department of Immunology and Microbiology
University of Colorado
Anschutz Medical Campus
Hosted by: Dr. Sarah Caddy
Department of Microbiology and Immunology
Friday, January 30, 2026
RNA Modifications During Flaviviridae Infection
Seminar Included in the VETMI 7120 Course Schedule.
Dr. Stacy Horner
Associate Professor
Department of Integrative Immunobiology
Center for RNA Biology, Center for Virology
Duke University, School of Medicine
Hosted by: Dr. Rafael Kroon Campos
Department of Microbiology and Immunology
Friday, February 13, 2026
Deciphering Dengue Virus Immunity Through the Lens of Human Challenge Models
Seminar Included in the VETMI 7120 Course Schedule.
Dr. Adam Waickman
Associate Professor of Microbiology and Immunology
Department of Microbiology and Immunology
SUNY Upstate Medical University
Hosted by: Dr. Colleen Lau
Department of Microbiology and Immunology
Friday, February 20, 2026
Targeting Adaptive Metabolism in Pancreatic Cancer
Seminar Included in the VETMI 7120 Course Schedule.
Dr. Zeribe Nwosu
Assistant Professor
Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics
College of Agricultural and Life Sciences
Cornell University
Hosted by: Dr. Deborah Fowell
Department of Microbiology and Immunology
Friday, February 27, 2026
Engineering Immune Training Niches with Mechanically Adaptive Biomaterials
Seminar Included in the VETMI 7120 Course Schedule.
Dr. Negin Majedi
Assistant Professor
Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Cornell Duffield Engineering
Cornell University
Hosted by: Dr. Cindy Leifer
Department of Microbiology and Immunology
Friday, March 6, 2026
Harnessing Neutrophil Antigen Presentation for Anti-Tumor Immunity
Seminar Included in the VETMI 7120 Course Schedule.
Dr. Tanya Mayadas
Department Chair & Professor
Department of Microbiology and Immunology
University of Rochester Medical Center
Hosted by: Dr. Deborah Fowell
Department of Microbiology and Immunology
Friday, March 20, 2026
Evolutionary Precursors to High-Level Antibiotic Resistance in Acinetobacter baumannii
Seminar Included in the VETMI 7120 Course Schedule.
Dr. Ralph Isberg
Professor
Department of Molecular Biology and Microbiology
Tufts University School of Medicine
Hosted by: Dr. Satoshi Kimura
Department of Microbiology and Immunology
Friday, April 10, 2026
The Price of Resistance: Exploring and Exploiting Collateral Vulnerabilities in TB
Seminar Included in the VETMI 7120 Course Schedule.
Dr. Jeremy Rock
Penrhyn E. Cook Associate Professor
Head of the Laboratory of Host-Pathogen Biology
The Rockefeller University
Hosted by: Dr. Brian VanderVen
Department of Microbiology and Immunology
Friday, April 17, 2026
*Location Change: CVM Lecture Hall 3 (T1-003)
Dynamics and Mechanisms of Viral Envelope Glycoproteins at Single-Molecule Resolution
Seminar Included in the VETMI 7120 Course Schedule.
Dr. James Munro
Professor
Department of Microbiology
UMASS Chan Medical School
Hosted by: Dr. Gary Whittaker
Department of Microbiology and Immunology
Friday, April 24, 2026
*Location Change: CVM Lecture Hall 3 (T1-003)
Elucidating the Enigmatic Biology of Arteriviruses Through Receptor Discovery
Seminar Included in the VETMI 7120 Course Schedule.
Dr. Adam Bailey
Assistant Professor
Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Hosted by: Dr. Sarah Caddy
Department of Microbiology and Immunology
Friday, May 1, 2026
The Raccoon Lens: Discovering Cryptic Microbial Diversity in Tick-Borne Pathogen Communities
Seminar Included in the VETMI 7120 Course Schedule.
Dr. Laura Goodman
Assistant Professor, Baker Institute for Animal Health
Section Chief, Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Cornell Public Health
Department of Public & Ecosystem Health
College of Veterinary Medicine
Cornell University
Hosted by: Dr. Colleen Lau
Department of Microbiology and Immunology
Fall 2025
Friday, August 29, 2025
Stem Cell Origins of Tissue Immunity: Early-Life Inflammation as a Drive of Immune Rewiring
Seminar included in the VETMI 7120 Course Schedule
Dr. Anna Beaudin
Associate Professor
Associate Chief of Basic Research
Division of Hematology and Hematologic Malginancies
Spencer Fox Eccles School of Medicine
University of Utah
Hosted by: Dr. Brian Rudd
Department of Microbiology and Immunology
Friday, September 12, 2025
Maternal B Cell Responses During Pregnancy
Seminar included in the VETMI 7120 Course Schedule
Dr. Gabrielle Rizzuto
Assistant Member
Human Oncology & Pathogenesis Programs
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Hosted by: Dr. Sarah Caddy
Department of Microbiology and Immunology
Friday, September 19, 2025
An Eavesdropping Pathogen: Control of Salmonella Virulence Through Interspecies Signaling
Seminar included in the VETMI 7120 Course Schedule
Dr. Craig Altier
Professor
Department of Population Medicine and Diagnostic Sciences
College of Veterinary Medicine
Cornell University
Hosted by: Dr. Deborah Fowell
Department of Microbiology and Immunology
Friday, September 26, 2025
T Cell Regulatory Genomics and Cell Interactions
*Time Change: 12:00pm-1:00pm*
Seminar included in the VETMI 7120 Course Schedule
Dr. Yuri Pritykin
Assistant Professor
Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics
Department of Computer Science
Princeton University
Hosted by: Dr. Colleen Lau
Department of Microbiology & Immunology
Friday, October 3, 2025
Origin of a Pandemic
Seminar included in the VETMI 7120 Course Schedule
Dr. Kristian Andersen
Professor and Director of Infectious Disease Genomics
Translational Research Institute
Department of Translational Medicine
The Scripps Research Institute
Hosted by: Dr. Andrew Flyak
Department of Microbiology and Immunology
Friday, October 24, 2025
Is Type 3 Immune Activation in Early Life A Harbinger of Intestinal Resilience?
Seminar included in the VETMI 7120 Course Schedule
Dr. Irah King
Professor, Department of Microbiology and Immunology
Director, McGill Centre for Microbiome Research
McGill University
Hosted by: Drs. Brian Rudd and Deborah Fowell
Department of Microbiology and Immunology
Friday, October 31, 2025
Antibiotic Tolerance in Klebsiella pneumoniae: Mechanisms and Consequences
Seminar included in the VETMI 7120 Course Schedule
Dr. Tobias Doerr
Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies
Department of Microbiology
Weill Institute for Cell and Molecular Biology
College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
Cornell University
Hosted by: Dr. Deborah Fowell
Department of Microbiology and Immunology
Friday, November 7, 2025
Role of IgE in Allergy & Immunity
Seminar included in the VETMI 7120 Course Schedule
Dr. Scott Smith
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Assistant Professor of Pathology, Microbiology, and Immunology
Department of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology
Vanderbilt University
Hosted by: Dr. Andrew Flyak
Department of Microbiology & Immunology
Friday, November 14, 2025
Positive, Negative, and Everything in Between
Seminar included in the VETMI 7120 Course Schedule
Dr. Wan-Lin Lo
Assistant Professor of Microbiology and Immunology
Department of Pathology
University of Utah
Hosted by: Dr. Brian Rudd
Department of Microbiology and Immunology
Friday, November 21, 2025
Our New Research Lab at the Roslin Institute: How the Versatile Nature of Stem Cells Might "Save the Day""
Seminar included in the VETMI 7120 Course Schedule
Dr. Gerlinde Van de Walle
Professor and Chair of Veterinary Pathobiology
Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies and Roslin Institute
University of Edinburgh
Hosted by: Dr. Deborah Fowell
Department of Microbiology and Immunology
Friday, December 5, 2025
Chemical Genetics of M. tuberculosis pathogensis
Seminar included in the VETMI 7120 Course Schedule
Dr. Brian VanderVen
Associate Professor of Microbiology and Immunology
Department of Microbiology and Immunology
College of Veterinary Medicine
Cornell University
Hosted by: Dr. Deborah Fowell
Department of Microbiology and Immunology
Spring 2025
Friday, January 24, 2025
Role of Nociceptor Neurons in Host Defense and Inflammation
Seminar included in the VETMI 7120 Course Schedule
Dr. Isaac Chiu
Professor of Immunology
Department of Immunology
Harvard Medical School
Hosted by: M&I Postdocs
Department of Microbiology and Immunology
Friday, February 7, 2025
Characterizing the Molecular Mechanisms of Ebola Virus Budding
Seminar included in the VETMI 7120 Course Schedule
Dr. Will Wan
Assistant Professor of Biochemistry
Department of Biochemistry
Vanderbilt University
Hosted by: M&I Graduate Students
Department of Microbiology and Immunology
Friday, February 14, 2025
Exploring How to Develop Broad Neutralising Antibodies Against RNA Viruses
Seminar included in the VETMI 7120 Course Schedule
Dr. Rowena Bull
NHMRC Investigator
Biomedical Sciences and The Kirby Institute
University of New South Wales, Australia
Hosted by: Dr. Andrew Flyak
Department of Microbiology and Immunology
Friday, March 7, 2025
The Cellular Basis of Vaccine Efficacy: What Infections Failed to Teach Us
Seminar included in the VETMI 7120 Course Schedule
Dr. Ross Kedl
Professor
Department of Immunology and Microbiology
University of Colorado Anschutz School of Medicine
Hosted by: Dr. Brian Rudd
Department of Microbiology & Immunology
Friday, March 14, 2025
Upper Airway Immune Memory in Humans, Germinal Centers, and Vaccine Immunology
Seminar included in the VETMI 7120 Course Schedule
Dr. Shane Crotty
Professor and Chief Scientific Officer
La Jolla Institute for Immunology
Hosted by: Dr. Gary Koretzky
Department of Microbiology and Immunology
Friday, March 21, 2025
"Papillomavirus Entry & Infection- Knowns & Unknowns"
Seminar included in the VETMI 7120 Course Schedule
Location Change: Paddock Lecture Hall 2 (S1-165)
Dr. Samuel Campos
Associate Professor, Immunobiology
University of Arizona
Hosted by: Dr. Hector Aguilar-Carreno
Department of Microbiology and Immunology
Cancelled: Friday, March 28, 2025
Thymic Selection of an MHC-Restricted and Self-Tolerant T Cell Repertoire
Seminar included in the VETMI 7120 Course Schedule
Dr. Alfred Singer
Branch Chief and Senior Investigator
Center for Cancer Research
National Cancer Institute (NCI)
Hosted by: M&I Graduate Students
Department of Microbiology and Immunology
Friday, April 11, 2025
Deciphering Immune-Epithelial Crosstalk in the Lung
Seminar included in the VETMI 7120 Course Schedule
Dr. Ruth Franklin
Assistant Professor of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology
Harvard Medical School
Hosted by: Dr. Colleen Lau
Department of Microbiology and Immunology
Cancelled: Friday, April 18, 2025
TBD
Seminar included in the VETMI 7120 Course Schedule
Dr. Mariana Byndloss
Assistant Professor, Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology
Vanderbilt University
Hosted by: Drs. John Parker & Brian VanderVen
Department of Microbiology and Immunology
Friday, April 25, 2025
Various Immune Cell Development, From the Embryo to Adults
Seminar included in the VETMI 7120 Course Schedule
Dr. Momoko Yoshimoto
Professor
Western Michigan University
Hosted by: Dr. Brian Rudd
Department of Microbiology and Immunology
Friday, May 2, 2025
Function of the Human Non-Canonical Inflammasomes During Innate Immune Activation
Seminar included in the VETMI 7120 Course Schedule
Dr. Cornelius Taabazuing
Presidential Assistant Professor
Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics
University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine
Hosted by: Dr. Colleen Lau
Department of Microbiology and Immunology
Friday, May 9, 2025
Illuminating the Integration of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Environmental Cue Response with its Metabolism
Seminar NOT included in the VETMI 7120 Course Schedule
Dr. Shumin Tan
Associate Professor
Department of Molecular Biology and Microbiology
Tufts University School of Medicine
Hosted by: Dr. David Russell
Department of Microbiology and Immunology
Cancelled: Friday, May 16, 2025
TBD
Seminar NOT included in the VETMI 7120 Course Schedule
Dr. Joseph Hyser
Associate Professor
Department of Virology & Microbiology
Baylor College of Medicine
Hosted by: Dr. Hector Aguilar-Carreno
Department of Microbiology and Immunology
Fall 2024
Friday, August 30, 2024
Structure-Guided Design of Vaccines
Seminar included in the VETMI 7120 Course Schedule
Dr. Rebecca DuBois
Professor and Chair of Biomolecular Engineering
Department of Biomolecular Engineering
University of California, Santa Cruz
Hosted by: Dr. Hector Aguilar-Carreno
Department of Microbiology & Immunology
Friday, September 6, 2024
Douglas D. McGregor Research Lecture
Seminar included in the VETMI 7120 Course Schedule
Location Change: CVM VMC Yarnell Lecture Hall 4 (S1-210) -- Time Change: 2:45 PM Eastern
Dr. George Yancopoulos
Regeneron Board Co-Chair
President and Chief Scientific Officer
Hosted by: BBS PhD Program
Friday, September 13, 2024
How Lessons From Animal Mucus Led to Glycan-Binding Broad Spectrum Antivirals
Seminar included in the VETMI 7120 Course Schedule
Dr. Adam Braunschweig
Deputy Executive Officer, Graduate Program of Chemistry, CUNY
Professor, Hunter College and Advanced Science Research Center, CUNY
Hosted by: Dr. Aguilar-Carreno
Department of Microbiology & Immunology
Friday, September 20, 2024
Redox Regulation of Host-Microbe Interactions
Seminar included in the VETMI 7120 Course Schedule
Dr. Stavroula Hatzios
Associate Professor
Department of Molecular, Cellular & Developmental Biology
Yale University
Hosted by: Dr. Pamela Chang
Department of Microbiology & Immunology
Friday, September 27, 2024
Phylodynamic Reconstruction of Viral Outbreaks
Seminar included in the VETMI 7120 Course Schedule
Dr. Louise Moncla
Assistant Professor of Pathobiology
University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine
Hosted by:
Drs. Sarah Caddy, Colin Parrish, and John Parker
Baker Institute for Animal Health
Department of Microbiology & Immunology
Drs. Hector Aguilar-Carreno and Gary Whittaker
Department of Microbiology & Immunology
Friday, October 11, 2024
The Two Antagonistic Pathways, Type I Interferon and Inflammasome/Gasdermin D, Control the Severity of Schistosome Immunopathology
Seminar included in the VETMI 7120 Course Schedule
Dr. Parisa Kalantari
Assistant Professor of Immunology
Pennsylvania State University
Hosted by: Dr. Deborah Fowell
Department of Microbiology & Immunology
Friday, October 18, 2024
What's Self Got to do With It? Thymic Imprinting of T Cell Effector Function
Seminar included in the VETMI 7120 Course Schedule
Dr. Heather Melichar
Associate Professor
McGill University
Hosted by: Dr. Brian Rudd
Department of Microbiology & Immunology
Friday, October 25, 2024
Applying Bacterial Genetics to Understand, Treat, and Prevent Tuberculosis
Seminar included in the VETMI 7120 Course Schedule
Dr. Sabine Ehrt
Professor of Microbiology and Immunology
Department of Microbiology and Immunology
Weill Cornell Medicine
Hosted by: Dr. Brian VanderVen
Department of Microbiology & Immunology
Cancelled: Friday, November 1, 2024
Bats as Reservoir Hosts of Emerging Pandemic-Potential Pathogens
Seminar included in the VETMI 7120 Course Schedule
Dr. Raina Plowright
Rudolf J. and Katharine L. Steffen Professor of Veterinary Medicine
Department of Public Ecosystem & Health
College of Veterinary Medicine
Cornell University
Hosted by: Dr. Deborah Fowell
Department of Microbiology & Immunology
Friday, November 8, 2024
Understanding and Preventing Early Life Infections: Challenges in CMV and HSV Infection
Seminar included in the VETMI 7120 Course Schedule
Dr. Margaret Ackerman
Professor of Engineering
Dartmouth
Hosted by: Dr. Sarah Caddy
Baker Institute for Animal Health
Department of Microbiology and Immunology
Friday, November 15, 2024
Themes and Variations of Stress-Signaling Alarmones in Bacteria
Seminar included in the VETMI 7120 Course Schedule
Dr. Jade Wang
Professor of Bacteriology
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Hosted by: M&I Postdocs
Department of Microbiology & Immunology
Friday, November 22, 2024
Illuminating the Microenvironments That Shape the Immune Response
Seminar included in the VETMI 7120 Course Schedule
Dr. Michael Gerner
Associate Professor
Department of Immunology
University of Washington
Hosted by: Dr. Deborah Fowell
Department of Microbiology & Immunology
Friday, December 6, 2024
Innate Immunity to Yersinia
Seminar included in the VETMI 7120 Course Schedule
Dr. Igor Brodsky
Robert R. Marshak Professor
University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine
Hosted by: Dr. Cindy Leifer
Department of Microbiology & Immunology
Friday, December 13, 2024
Eliciting Humoral Immunity to Viral Infections
Seminar NOT included in the VETMI 7120 Course Schedule
Dr. Facundo Batista
Phillip and Susan Ragon Professor
Associate Director and Scientific Director, Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT, and Harvard
Hosted by: Dr. Sarah Caddy
Baker Institute for Animal Health
Department of Microbiology & Immunology
Spring 2024
Friday, January 26, 2024
Turning Pathogens into Cell Biology Tools
Seminar included in the VETMI 7120 Course Schedule
Dr. Shaeri Mukherjee
Professor
Department of Microbiology & Immunology
University of California, San Francisco
Hosted by: Dr. Satoshi Kimura
Department of Microbiology & Immunology
Friday, February 9, 2024
Evolutionary Signatures of Disease Re-emergence
Seminar included in the VETMI 7120 Course Schedule
Dr. Ana Bento
Assistant Professor
Department of Public Ecosystem & Health
College of Veterinary Medicine
Cornell University
Hosted by: Dr. Gary Whittaker
Department of Microbiology & Immunology
Department of Public Ecosystem & Health
Friday, February 16, 2024
Neutralizing Antibodies Against Pathogenic Viruses
Seminar included in the VETMI 7120 Course Schedule
Dr. Pamela Bjorkman
David Baltimore Professor of Biology & Biological Engineering
Merkin Institute Professor
Division of Biology & Biological Engineering
California Institute of Technology
Hosted by: Dr. Andrew Flyak
Department of Microbiology & Immunology
Friday, February 23, 2024
Ins and Outs of Double-Stranded RNA Viruses
Seminar included in the VETMI 7120 Course Schedule
Dr. Kristen Ogden
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
Assistant Professor of Pathology, Microbiology, and Immunology
Department of Pathology, Microbiology, and Immunology
Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Hosted by:
Dr. Sarah Caddy
Baker Institute for Animal Health
Department of Microbiology & Immunology
Dr. Colin Parrish
Baker Institute for Animal Health
Department of Microbiology & Immunology
Cancelled: Friday, March 1, 2024
Could We Prevent Pandemics By Stopping Spillover?
Seminar included in the VETMI 7120 Course Schedule
Dr. Raina Plowright
Rudolph J. and Katharine L. Steffen Professor of Veterinary Medicine
Department of Pathology, Microbiology, and Immunology
Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Hosted by:
Dr. Deborah Fowell
Department of Microbiology & Immunology
Friday, March 8, 2024
An Expanding Universe: Bile Acids in Mucosal Immune Regulation
Seminar included in the VETMI 7120 Course Schedule
Dr. Mark Sundrud
Professor of Medicine
Department of Medicine
Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth
Hosted by: Dr. Mandy McGeachy
Department of Microbiology & Immunology
Friday, March 15, 2024
Molecular Evolution of RNA Viruses or What Can We Learn from Modern Comparative Sequence Analysis: Lessons from the Big Four (HIV-1, SARS-CoV2, IAV, HCV)
Seminar included in the VETMI 7120 Course Schedule
Dr. Sergei Pond
Professor
Department of Biology
Temple University
Hosted by: Dr. Gary Whittaker
Department of Microbiology & Immunology
Department of Public and Ecosystem Health
Friday, March 22, 2024
The Gates Medical Research Institute: Building a Non-Profit Biotech
Location: CVM Yarnell Lecture Hall 4 (S1-210)
Seminar included in the VETMI 7120 Course Schedule
Dr. Jared Silverman
Head of Translational Discovery
Gates Medical Research Institute
Hosted by: Dr. David Russell
Department of Microbiology & Immunology
Friday, March 29, 2024
Of Barriers and Viruses: Investigating Mechanisms Used by Viral Pathogens to Trigger Vascular Leak, Pathogenesis, and Promote Viral Dissemination
Seminar included in the VETMI 7120 Course Schedule
Dr. Scott Biering
Assistant Professor
Department of Molecular Biology
University of California, San Diego
Hosted by: Dr. Hector Aguilar-Carreno
Department of Microbiology and Immunology
Friday, April 12, 2024
Restoring Diplomatic Relations with Microbes
Seminar included in the VETMI 7120 Course Schedule
Dr. Ken Cadwell
T. Grier Miller Professor of Medicine
Perelman School of Medicine
University of Pennsylvania
Hosted by: Dr. Colleen Lau
Department of Microbiology & Immunology
Friday, April 19, 2024
Immune-Mediated Mechanisms of Tissue Adaptation and Maladaptation
Seminar included in the VETMI 7120 Course Schedule
Dr. Shruti Naik
Associate Professor
Department of Pathology
Department of Medicine
Ronald O. Perelman Department of Dermatology
NYU Grossman School of Medicine
Hosted by: Dr. Mandy McGeachy
Department of Microbiology & Immunology
Friday, April 26, 2024
Antibodies and Their Receptors: Coupling Innate and Adaptive Immunity
Seminar included in the VETMI 7120 Course Schedule
Dr. Jeffrey Ravetch
Theresa and Eugene M. Lang Chair & Professor
Department of Immunology, Virology, and Microbiology
The Rockefeller University
Hosted by: Dr. Sarah Caddy
Department of Microbiology & Immunology
Friday, May 3, 2024
Interorgan Communication in Host Defense
Seminar included in the VETMI 7120 Course Schedule
Dr. Matt Waldor
Edward H. Kass Professor of Medicine
Brigham and Women's Hospital
Harvard Medical School
Hosted by: Dr. Deborah Fowell
Department of Microbiology & Immunology
Friday, May 10, 2024
Human Antibodies for Emerging Infectious Diseases
Seminar NOT included in the VETMI 7120 Course Schedule
Dr. James Crowe
Director, Vanderbilt Vaccine Center
Professor, Departments of Pediatrics and Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology
Ann Scott Carell Chair
Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Hosted by: M&I Graduate Students
Department of Microbiology & Immunology
Friday, May 17, 2024
Far From Home: T Cell Migrating Through Non-Lymphoid Tissues
Seminar NOT included in the VETMI 7120 Course Schedule
Dr. Susan Schwab
Professor
Departments of Cell Biology and Pathology
NYU Grossman School of Medicine
Hosted by: Dr. Colleen Lau
Department of Microbiology & Immunology
Fall 2023
Monday-Tuesday, August 28-29, 2023
Cornell Intercampus Vaccine Symposium
For more information, please view the Cornell Intercampus Vaccine Symposium Website.
Hosted by:
Dr. Hector Aguilar-Carreno (Department of Microbiology & Immunology)
Dr. Sallie Permar (Weill Cornell Medicine)
Friday, September 8, 2023
Tuberculosis As An Interferonopathy
Russell Vance, PhD
HHMI Investigator & Professor of Immunology and Molecular Medicine
Department of Molecular & Cell Biology
University of California, Berkeley
Hosted by: Brian VanderVen, PhD
Department of Microbiology & Immunology
Thursday, September 14, 2023 -- ADW-PAL Seminar
Decoding the Genomic Program to Generate T Cells
Location: CVM VMC Lecture Hall 5 (S1-212) -- Time: 4:00 PM Eastern
Ellen Rothenberg, PhD
Edward B. Lewis Professor of Biology
Division of Biology & Biological Engineering
University of California, Berkley
*For more information, please view Dr. Rothenberg's faculty profile on the Andrew D. White Professors-at-Large program website.
Hosted by:
Dr. Brian Rudd (Department of Microbiology & Immunology)
Dr. Andrew Grimson (Department of Molecular Biology & Genetics)
Friday, September 29, 2023
Human Intestinal Enteroid Cultures as Models for Advancing Rotavirus Vaccines
Sasirekha Ramani, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Molecular Virology & Microbiology
Baylor College of Medicine
Hosted by: Sarah Caddy, MA, VetMB, PhD, DACVM, FRCVS
Baker Institute for Animal Health
Department of Microbiology & Immunology
Tuesday, October 3, 2023 -- BBS3 Seminar
Parasite Partners: Unveiling Pathogen Latency with Transgenic Allies
Location: CVM VMC Yarnell Lecture Hall 4 (S1-210) -- Time: 4:00 PM Eastern
Chris Hunter, PhD
Mindy Halikman Heyer Distinguished Professor of Pathobiology
University of Pennsylvania
Hosted by:
Dr. Cindy Leifer (Department of Microbiology & Immunology)
Dr. Karla Garcia-Martinez
Friday, October 13, 2023
Visualizing and Manipulating Immunity with Light
Minsoo Kim, PhD
Dean's Professor of Microbiology and Immunology
University of Rochester Medical Center
Hosted by: Dr. Deborah Fowell
Department of Microbiology and Immunology
Friday, October 20, 2023
A Species-Level Strategy to Reveal Novel Antibiotic Resistance Mechanisms
Luiz Sorio De Carvalho, PhD
Professor
Department of Chemistry
The Herbert Wertheim Scripps Institute for Biomedical Innovation & Technology
University of Florida
Hosted by: David Russell, PhD
Department of Microbiology & Immunology
Friday, October 27, 2023
A Commotion in the Lung: Host-Pathogen Interactions in Tuberculosis
Michael Shiloh, M.D., Ph.D.
James P. Luby, M.D. Professorship in Infectious Diseases
Associate Professor
Department of Internal Medicine
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Hosted by: Brian VanderVen, PhD
Department of Microbiology & Immunology
Cancelled: Friday, November 3, 2023
Mapping the Landscape of Virus-Host Interactions with Multiscale Imaging Approaches
Collin Kieffer, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Microbiology
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Hosted by: Andrew Flyak, PhD
Department of Microbiology & Immunology
Tuesday, November 7, 2023 -- BBS3 Seminar
CD19 CAR T Cells: A Paradigm for the Living Drug Concept
Location: CVM VMC Lecture Hall 5 (S1-212) -- Time: 4:00 PM Eastern
Michel Sadelain, PhD
Stephen and Barbara Friendman Chair
Director, Center for Cell Engineering
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Hosted by: James Cockey (Department of Microbiology & Immunology)
Friday, November 17, 2023
Immune Imprinting Affects Influenza Virus and SARS-CoV-2 Susceptibility
Scott Hensley, PhD
Professor of Microbiology
Director, Penn-CEIRR
University of Pennsylvania
Hosted by: Sarah Caddy, MA, VetMB, PhD, DACVM, FRCVS
Baker Institute for Animal Health
Department of Microbiology & Immunology
Friday, December 1, 2023
Specificity Matters: T Cell Responses to Infections and Tumors
Paul Thomas, PhD
Professor
Department of Immunology
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
Hosted by: Brian Rudd, MPH, PhD
Department of Microbiology & Immunology
Friday, December 8, 2023
Infectious Disease Forum: Reverse Zoonosis
Location: CVM VMC Murray Lecture Hall 1 (S1-166)
Hosted By:
Dr. Kristina Ceres (Department of Population Medicine & Diagnostic Sciences)
Dr. David Russell (Department of Microbiology & immunology)
Dr. Brian VanderVen (Department of Microbiology & Immunology)
Spring 2023
Friday, January 27, 2023
Immune Control of Gut Mucus-Associated Commensals
Craig Maynard, PhD
Associate Professor
Department of Pathology, Division of Molecular and Cellular Pathology
Department of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Hosted by: Mandy McGeachy, PhD
Department of Microbiology & Immunology
Friday, February 3, 2023
Teaching the Teachers: Crosstalk Between Thymocytes and Thymic APCs
Lauren Ehrlich, PhD
Associate Professor
Lorene Morrow Kelley Fellow
Department of Molecular Biosciences
Department of Oncology, Dell Medical School
University of Texas at Austin
Hosted by: Brian Rudd, MPH, PhD
Department of Microbiology & Immunology
Friday, February 10, 2023
Investigating and Expanding the Structures and Functions of Secretory Antibodies
Beth Stadtmueller, PhD
Assistant Professor of Biochemistry
College of Liberal Arts & Sciences
School of Molecular & Cellular Biology
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Hosted by: Andrew Flyak, PhD
Department of Microbiology & Immunology
Friday, February 17, 2023
Tissue-specific Transcriptional Regulation of T Cell Immunity
Amanda Poholek, PhD
Director of the Health Sciences Sequencing Core at UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh
Assistant Professor
Department of Pediatrics
Department of Immunology
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Hosted by: Mandy McGeachy, PhD
Department of Microbiology & Immunology
Friday, February 24, 2023
Understanding Birnaviridae Replication, Pathogenicity, and Antigenicity
Andrew Broadbent, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Animal & Avian Sciences
College of Agriculture & Natural Resources
University of Maryland
Hosted by: Colin Parrish, PhD
Baker Institute for Animal Health
Department of Microbiology & Immunology
Friday, March 3, 2023
Receptor Usage by Hantaviruses
Rohit Jangra, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Microbiology & Immunology
Louisiana State University Health at Shreveport
Hosted by: John Parker, BVMS, PhD
Baker Institute for Animal Health
Department of Microbiology & Immunology
Friday, March 10, 2023
Rotavirus Host Restriction Through the Lens of the Reverse Genetics System
Siyuan Ding, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Molecular Microbiology
Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis
Hosted by: Sarah Caddy, MA, VetMB, PhD, DACVM, MRCVS
Department of Microbiology & Immunology
Friday, March 17, 2023
Unraveling The Secrets of the Stem Cell Secretome
Gerlinde Van de Walle, PhD
Associate Professor
Baker Institute for Animal Health
Department of Microbiology and Immunology
College of Veterinary Medicine
Cornell University
Hosted by: Deborah Fowell, DPhil (PhD)
Department of Microbiology & Immunology
Friday, March 31, 2023
Looking Under the Hood: The Metabolic Transmission of Mycobacterium Tuberculosis
Kyu Rhee, PhD
Professor of Medicine
Weill Cornell Medical College
Hosted by: Brian VanderVen, PhD
Department of Microbiology & Immunology
Friday, April 14, 2023
Mechanisms Regulating the Immune-Vascular Interplay During Neuroinflammation
Location Change: Lecture Hall 2 (S1-165)
Jorge Alvarez, BSc, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Pathobiology
School of Veterinary Medicine
University of Pennsylvania
Hosted by: Mandy McGeachy, PhD
Department of Microbiology & Immunology
Friday, April 21, 2023
Microbes, Metabolites, and Mucosal Immunity
Kathy McCoy, PhD
Professor
Department of Physiology & Pharmacology
University of Calgary
Killam Memorial Chair
Scientific Director | International Microbiome Centre
Hosted by: Brian Rudd, MPH, PhD
Department of Microbiology & Immunology
Friday, April 28, 2023
NK Cells in Host Immunity
Joseph Sun, PhD
Professor of Immunology and Director
Immunology and Microbial Pathogenesis Program
Weill Cornell Medical College
Hosted by: M&I Graduate Students
Department of Microbiology & Immunology
Friday, May 5, 2023
Does A Dangerous Cousin Make You Dangerous? Assessing the Pathogenic Potential of Newly Discovered Filoviruses
Elke Muhlberger, PhD
Director of Integrated Science Services
National Emerging Infectious Dieseases Laboratories (NEIDL)
Professor of Microbiology
Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine
Boston University
Hosted by: M&I Graduate Students
Department of Microbiology & Immunology
Friday, May 12, 2023
Convergent Evolution of Human Hepatitis C Virus bNAb Lineages with Diverse VH Genes
This seminar is not part of the VETMI 7120 course.
Justin Bailey, MD, PhD
Associate Professor
Department of Medicine
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Attending Physician
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Hosted by: Andrew Flyak, PhD
Department of Microbiology & Immunology
Friday, May 26, 2023
CD8+ T Cell Immunity: New Tools To Answer Old Questions
This seminar is not part of the VETMI 7120 course.
Brian Rudd, MPH, PhD
Associate Professor of Immunology
Department of Microbiology and Immunology
College of Veterinary Medicine
Cornell University
Hosted by: Deborah Fowell, DPhil (PhD)
Department of Microbiology & Immunology